So, I wonder what address Mr. Birdwell's residence was listed as here in Texas? Owning an empty lot and oil rights is not enough to establish residency. I can't figure out why this issue is so complicated to prove.

Because Politicians Don't Have To Follow the Same Rules as you and me. I'm going to repeat that he did buy land in Texas to live on. IN NOVEMBER, 2005. What month is it NOW? August. And he says on his website that he moved here in 2006. So even though he had the property in Granbury LESS THAN 5 YEARS AGO, he didn't MOVE here till 2006 at which time he apparently registered as a New voter. So he was not a RESIDENT of the property he bought in Granbury for five years. Period.

I'm with you that I don't know why this is so complicated. The fact that when he first must have realized it was going to be an issue and went BY HIMSELF to a judge, without the competing parties present, to rule on his residency shows to me that he was attempting to go around the issue.

On his answer: seems that at least a good chunk of it is not really answering the residency question but asking whether the lawsuit points can even be brought.

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